Are you eager to shape the multi-year strategy for cloud APIs, developer tools, and infrastructure integrations?
Are you looking to bridge the gap between deep technical architecture and product strategy?
Join our team
Akamai Cloud Technology Group empowers customers to build scalable distributed applications across a simple cloud platform. Our Compute Foundations team creates core primitives, APIs, systems, and developer tools. We power compute interactions across the Akamai Cloud platform.
Partner with the best
You will lead the vision, strategy, and execution for how developers interact with Akamai Cloud. In this role, you will evolve enterprise developer tools and pioneer AI-first workflows.
As a Principal Product Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Crafting and driving the multi-year vision, product strategy, and execution roadmap for Akamai Cloud developer tooling
- Modernizing brownfield enterprise API paths while elevating API quality, consistency, and platform performance
- Pioneering next-generation developer interfaces for AI agents and LLM-driven workflows using Model Context Protocol endpoints
- Collaborating with engineering on API design guidelines, OpenAPI standards, schema governance, and API Gateway capabilities
- Overseeing product development for official developer tools including CLI, SDKs, and Infrastructure as Code providers
- Influencing strategy of streamlining and unifying the Developer Experience across multiple platforms to ensure consistency and efficiency.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or its equivalent
- Have experience designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs and delivering developer tools like CLIs, SDKs, and Terraform providers
- Possess solid expertise in API Gateway architectures, traffic management, and authentication protocols such as OAuth2 and mTLS
- Demonstrate a proven track record of evolving mature developer platforms and managing breaking-change lifecycles without disrupting existing workloads
- Be knowledgeable about open-source developer ecosystems, Infrastructure as Code automation communities, and cloud platforms
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $159,600 - $287,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Skills Required
- 15 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs
- Experience delivering developer tools such as CLIs, SDKs, and Terraform providers
- Expertise in API Gateway architectures, traffic management, OAuth2, and mTLS
- Experience evolving mature developer platforms and managing breaking-change lifecycles
- Kubernetes expertise and technical fluency in CNCF technologies
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, monitoring, database management, and data visualization tools
- Knowledge of open-source developer ecosystems, Infrastructure as Code communities, and cloud platforms
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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